UML Contracts in England

Unified Modeling Language (UML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring UML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited UML over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 350 407
Rank change year-on-year -42 +57 +10
Contract jobs citing UML 93 194 259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.52% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.60% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 118 140
10th Percentile £350 £463 £406
25th Percentile £391 £500 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £650 £540
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +20.37% -1.82%
75th Percentile £649 £825 £639
90th Percentile £697 £925 £764
UK median daily rate £510 £638 £541
% change year-on-year -20.00% +17.78% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 36 51
10th Percentile £46.20 £55.63 £48.48
25th Percentile £55.09 £57.19 £53.13
Median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £68.13
90th Percentile £73.88 £83.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -0.77% +13.04% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

UML falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

UML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing UML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for UML in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UML in England.

Daily rate trend for UML in England

UML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UML in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UML in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UML in England.

Hourly rate trend for UML in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing UML in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for UML in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UML within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +28 30 £350 -33.33% 111
London -28 25 £625 -21.88% 43
South West +34 14 £675 +22.73% 48
North of England +27 12 £400 -20.00% 61
East of England +24 7 £375 -31.82% 50
North West +18 5 £383 -23.40% 27
Midlands +14 5 £625 +73.61% 66
West Midlands +11 5 £625 +25.00% 38
Yorkshire - 4 £525 - 26
North East - 3 £469 - 8
UML
UK

UML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (18.28%) Confluence
2 3 (3.23%) SAS
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.08%) Apache
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.08%) Smallworld
Applications
1 9 (9.68%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.08%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.15%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.75%) AWS
2 8 (8.60%) Azure
3 4 (4.30%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.30%) SaaS
4 2 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (2.15%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (2.15%) Apigee
4 2 (2.15%) AWS KMS
4 2 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.15%) GCP
4 2 (2.15%) GitHub
4 2 (2.15%) IaaS
4 2 (2.15%) PaaS
4 2 (2.15%) Route 53
4 2 (2.15%) Serverless
5 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.08%) Miro
5 1 (1.08%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.05%) Software-Defined Radio
2 9 (9.68%) SNMP
3 3 (3.23%) Ethernet
3 3 (3.23%) HTTP
4 2 (2.15%) IPsec
4 2 (2.15%) Kerberos
4 2 (2.15%) SSL
5 1 (1.08%) GPON
5 1 (1.08%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.08%) Intranet
5 1 (1.08%) MQTT
5 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.38%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.30%) Power BI
3 4 (4.30%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.30%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.15%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.15%) Metadata
4 2 (2.15%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.15%) Tableau
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.08%) Big Data
5 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.08%) GIS
5 1 (1.08%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (22.58%) JIRA
2 13 (13.98%) Git
3 10 (10.75%) Bitbucket
4 9 (9.68%) GoogleTest
4 9 (9.68%) Robot Framework
5 7 (7.53%) Eclipse
6 6 (6.45%) Jenkins
7 5 (5.38%) ERwin
7 5 (5.38%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (2.15%) GitLab
8 2 (2.15%) MagicDraw
8 2 (2.15%) Maven
8 2 (2.15%) Postman
8 2 (2.15%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (2.15%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
General
1 22 (23.66%) Finance
2 18 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.45%) Banking
4 6 (6.45%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.38%) Billing
6 4 (4.30%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Military
7 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.08%) Automotive
8 1 (1.08%) Aviation
8 1 (1.08%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.08%) Electronics
8 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Law
8 1 (1.08%) Legal
8 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (21.51%) Analyst
2 17 (18.28%) Software Engineer
3 15 (16.13%) Business Analyst
4 13 (13.98%) Architect
4 13 (13.98%) Embedded Engineer
5 11 (11.83%) Ada Engineer
5 11 (11.83%) Ada Software Engineer
6 10 (10.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Designer
7 7 (7.53%) Software Test Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (7.53%) Solutions Designer
7 7 (7.53%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Data Modeller
9 5 (5.38%) Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Rust Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Senior
10 4 (4.30%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.83%) REST
1 11 (11.83%) Web Services
2 10 (10.75%) HTML
3 9 (9.68%) CSS
4 7 (7.53%) JSON
5 5 (5.38%) Node.js
6 3 (3.23%) JavaFX
6 3 (3.23%) Middleware
6 3 (3.23%) Spring
6 3 (3.23%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.23%) Swagger
6 3 (3.23%) XML
7 2 (2.15%) .NET
7 2 (2.15%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.15%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (2.15%) FpML
7 2 (2.15%) OAuth
7 2 (2.15%) OpenAPI
7 2 (2.15%) SAML
7 2 (2.15%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.83%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.38%) Frameworx
2 5 (5.38%) TM Forum
3 4 (4.30%) Reference Data
3 4 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.23%) PCIe
4 3 (3.23%) Verilog
4 3 (3.23%) VHDL
5 2 (2.15%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.15%) Equities
5 2 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.08%) IoT
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.08%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 24 (25.81%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (58.06%) Agile
2 36 (38.71%) SysML
3 27 (29.03%) Software Engineering
4 26 (27.96%) Scrum
5 14 (15.05%) BPMN
5 14 (15.05%) Software Testing
6 13 (13.98%) Data Modelling
6 13 (13.98%) Microservices
6 13 (13.98%) Requirements Gathering
7 12 (12.90%) CI/CD
7 12 (12.90%) Validation
8 11 (11.83%) Business Analysis
8 11 (11.83%) Business Strategy
8 11 (11.83%) Test Automation
8 11 (11.83%) User Stories
9 10 (10.75%) Use Case
10 9 (9.68%) Prototyping
10 9 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (9.68%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.83%) Ada
1 11 (11.83%) JavaScript
1 11 (11.83%) SQL
2 10 (10.75%) C++
3 9 (9.68%) Java
3 9 (9.68%) Python
4 5 (5.38%) Rust
5 3 (3.23%) C
5 3 (3.23%) SystemVerilog
5 3 (3.23%) Tcl
6 1 (1.08%) C#
6 1 (1.08%) Embedded C
6 1 (1.08%) Fortran
6 1 (1.08%) Magik
6 1 (1.08%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 32 (34.41%) Security Cleared
2 31 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.90%) Degree
4 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.15%) HND
5 2 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.08%) CBAP
6 1 (1.08%) CSPO
6 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) IIBA
6 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.15%) GDPR
1 2 (2.15%) MISRA
1 2 (2.15%) MISRA C
2 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.08%) QA
2 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (7.53%) Firmware
2 2 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.15%) Docker
2 2 (2.15%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (2.15%) Ansible
1 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.15%) Packer
1 2 (2.15%) PTC Integrity
1 2 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (2.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (12.90%) Atlassian
2 11 (11.83%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.60%) Sparx
4 7 (7.53%) Google
5 5 (5.38%) Salesforce
5 5 (5.38%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.30%) IBM
7 3 (3.23%) Ariba
7 3 (3.23%) SAP
7 3 (3.23%) Xilinx
8 2 (2.15%) Oracle
8 2 (2.15%) PTC
9 1 (1.08%) Avaloq
9 1 (1.08%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (1.08%) FNZ
9 1 (1.08%) Informatica
9 1 (1.08%) Intel
9 1 (1.08%) Pega
9 1 (1.08%) Progress
9 1 (1.08%) Twitter